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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2019 17:07:23 +0930
From:      "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Oleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB serial ports by serial number
Message-ID:  <366762AE-757E-4EB4-9A51-8B513FE7BC42@dons.net.au>
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> On 3 Oct 2019, at 17:01, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote:
> On 2019-10-03 08:56, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
>> Most of USB-serial devices have "very stable" serial number:)
>> more than 50% have S/N "0123456789".
>=20
> It is also allowed to have no serial number.

Yes, that's why I match sernum to '.+' to skip those.

> Maybe some kind of "lstty" would do.
>=20
> -l  -  list all devices
> -s  -  match by serial
> -v  -  match by vendor
> -p  -  match by product
> -i  -  match by interface ID
> -t  -  type [USB/PCI]
>=20
> which simply output the tty number you need. Could be an API we could =
add to libusb.

The problem is you can't modify some program to call a new API a lot of =
the time but it is usually trivial to change which serial port it's =
configured to use.

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum





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